Topic by Dan Gero 2019-09-01 03:47:54

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Hello.
I was attempting to make a virtual machine of Windows 10. I got everything configured the way it needed to be and tried to power it on, but it presented me with this error message:
"This host supports Intel VT-x, but Intel VT-x is disabled.

Intel VT-x might be disabled if it has been disabled in the BIOS/firmware settings or the host has not been power-cycled since changing this setting.

(1) Verify that the BIOS/firmware settings enable Intel VT-x and disable 'trusted execution.'

(2) Power-cycle the host if either of these BIOS/firmware settings have been changed.

(3) Power-cycle the host if you have not done so since installing VMware Player.

(4) Update the host's BIOS/firmware to the latest version.

This host does not support "Intel EPT" hardware assisted MMU virtualization.

Module 'CPUIDEarly' power on failed.

Failed to start the virtual machine."
I went to set up the bios. For my HP computer, the key to access the bios is F10. I tried both tapping and holding the key down on start up. I also tried tapping the escape key on start up then pressing F10. None of these methods worked. I then tried to hold down Windows and b on start up which is what I was told I should do if I can't get F10 to work, but this also failed. What's also strange is the fact that I was not having this issue with my previous installation of Windows.
Does anyone know what could be causing these issues?

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Reply by Ethin 2019-09-01 04:08:39

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Your processor should support Intel VT-X. Practically every processor these days does.
Try following the steps that it provides. Yes, you can't get into your BIOS, so you can't do some of them, but you can do the others. As for you not being able to get into your BIOS? Hammer F10 repeatedly. Literally tap it as fast as you can as soon as you press the power button -- tat should open the firmware utilities.

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Reply by GrannyCheeseWheel 2019-09-01 04:25:01

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Yeah it's usually the bios.

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Reply by Dan Gero 2019-09-01 04:32:50

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Yeah, I should probably try to update the firmware, that probably explains why the bios won't work when I hammer F10. I've already done a power cycle and I'm updating my computer on the software side of things. I still think it's weird that this wasn't an issue before but somehow is now.

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Reply by Dan Gero 2019-09-01 10:42:50

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I have figured out why I was unable to access the bios. On some HP computers, by default you have to hold down FN in order to use your function keys. You don't have to do that when attempting to access the bios, in fact if you try to get in that way it won't work at all. I enabled virtualization and it works just fine now. Thank you guys for the assistance.

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Reply by pitermach 2019-09-01 12:48:24

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A friend of mine just ran into a similar message, perhaps it's something that got changed in an update to VMWare. I have a vague memory of seeing an option in the VM settings to disable using the host virtualisation technology. That being said I wouldn't recommend it. If your computer's CPU has VTX or whatever the AMD equivllent is, you really should be using it as it greatly helps with performance.

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Reply by marko 2019-09-01 13:50:44

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pitermach wrote:

A friend of mine just ran into a similar message, perhaps it's something that got changed in an update to VMWare. I have a vague memory of seeing an option in the VM settings to disable using the host virtualisation technology. That being said I wouldn't recommend it. If your computer's CPU has VTX or whatever the AMD equivllent is, you really should be using it as it greatly helps with performance.

I would like to enable that option, where is it located?

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Reply by marko 2019-09-01 17:28:40

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Dan_Gero, check your pm.

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Reply by Hijacker 2019-09-01 18:30:01

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The position of that option in your BIOS (which you cannot access without sighted help I should say, except you want to fiddle around with external OCR like Seeing AI or NVision) is different from each BIOS/UEFI to another, thus we'd need more information about your PC/Laptop/whatever and even then we'll probably be unable to help you. You'll just have to get some sighted help and see for yourself.
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Reply by Ethin 2019-09-01 20:42:20

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A note of caution: never update your BIOS firmware unless you absolutely have to. Updating BIOS firmware is a dangerous operation, no matter what anyone else claims. (All you need to do is look at... asus computers... I think, for evidence; they have a windows BIOS upgrade utility that fails and bricks the machines over 60 percent of the time or so.) If your computer has a secondary BIOS/UEFI chip, then its a bit safer; but most laptops do not possess such chips, making that process all the more dangerous. Unless you absolutely know what your doing, do not update your firmware as you run the very high risk of bricking your computer. My laptop, for example, when upgrading my firmware, requires me to use the UEFI shell and enter commands to perform the upgrade.

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Even my pretty recent ASUS board (march 2018 model) doesn't have an automatic BIOS/UEFI updater. ASUS is pretty behind in that matter. HP and Dell however do have Dos and Windows updaters for their BIOS, and I always applied them whenever a new version got released (the maintenance tools of the corresponding devices even recommend me to do so). I thus consider those two vendors to be a bit more ahead at this topic, but I also know about vendors who don't yet know how it needs to be done right. In any case, never touch a running system, and as long as your system runs smoothly, there shouldn't be a reason to take the risk and update your BIOS/UEFI.
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Reply by haily_merry 2019-09-02 00:24:53

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Ok so since it's kind of rellivent to this topic and since I've been wondering about this for a while now, does anyone know of an accessible way to use the bios that does not involve fucking around with OCR? Need to enable virtualization on my HP as well.

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@12, no, not something even remotely capable of allowing you to do that. UEFI makes such an interface possible but it has not been done quite yet. I submitted an RFC to EDK2 and still have gotten no response; I'll probably contact the UEFI forum again to inquire about that.

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Reply by marko 2019-09-02 12:37:39

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Can someone tell me the best way to take a picture of my laptop screen so that it reads the text? I have no sighted people around me.

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Reply by Chris 2019-09-02 16:13:13

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You can try using Be My Eyes or Aira to help navigate those screens and change options. Aira is especially useful here as the agents can take pictures and read information to you. The only trouble you may face is changing settings that require you to drag and drop using the mouse.

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To this day I have never found a BIOS/UEFI setup utility that requires you to drag and drop with the mouse. I have no idea why anyone would want such a utility at such an early stage of computer initialization, but meh...

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Reply by RemusLupin 2019-09-02 16:56:03

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well marko, i don't recomend you mess with bios if you don't have any sighted asistant. It's so risky.

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Apparently, my Dell Latitude E6540 has some kind of drag and drop thing for setting the boot order. I couldn't get Aira to help me because I couldn't change the options with the keyboard, so I had to get my mom to help me reorder things.

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UEFI is fully mouse-compatible those days, so it would be nice to add in at least drag and drop support, but most of the time you still got the already well known key shortcuts available as well, like F5/F6 to change boot order and such things. But it might be true that some UEFI vendors even removed those.
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Reply by Ethin 2019-09-02 19:30:39 (edited by Ethin 2019-09-02 19:31:13)

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UEFI is awesome, just saying. It brings so, so much potential to the pre-boot environment that never existed before. As an example, you don't need a bootloader any more to launch your OS; you can just create an EFI stub like Linux does and boot it directly.

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